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[Martin L <nitram@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you BIOS hacked, cause mine is not. Are you sayin that I just need 
to set the right kernel parameters in order for the scrren not ogo blank 
after boot ?

-Martin

Den 23-03-2011 18:30, Justin Karneges skrev:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 10:13:12 Martin L wrote:
> > What Vaio are you using?
> > I tried Natty alpha3 vi a Z12(1600x1280 screen). Not much luck. I don't
> > see anything at boot (screen remains blank), so I can't boot into the
> > live system. I might be able to install the same way i did with 10.10
> > but I don't want to ruin my mostly working system.
> I recently tested alpha3 and I had the same problem, but only with nvidia (I
> had speed switch set, and static switching via acpi_osi kernel param, so
> booting directly from my working system to alpha3 live CD meant I was still
> using static-switched nvidia).  Rebooting into the live CD again (such that
> acpi_osi was not in effect from previous boot) got me a working system with
> presumably Intel.  I haven't had a chance to play further.
>
> I'm pretty sure nvidia worked with alpha2 so there may have been a regression.
> hmmm
>
> Justin
>
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